Thanks. I'll look into that. Being a Windows guy, I am not sure how well Squid and I would get along. :)
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com>wrote: > > In addition to other comments, it might be worth spending a minute > reading up on Squid: > > http://www.squid-cache.org/ > > Caching some or all of the site could mean you can do the entire thing > with just 2 CF machines. In my experience, the bottleneck for Squid > is not the OS or Squid itself, but the capacity of the network cards > in the machine. It can handle ALOT of traffic. The learning curve > required to implement this may or may not be within your time window. > > -Cameron > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Rob Rhodes <rrhode...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hello. > > > > I have been a lurker on this board for a while, and never thought I was > qualified enough to offer opinions. Well, that has not changed. > > > > But now I could really use some advice on how to gear up quickly to > handle a ton of traffic on a cf9 site. > > > > I can't really go into the details, but I have just inherited a cf9/SQL > server site that gets well over a million page views per day. It was > previously running on multiple servers using shared array. > > > > It's an impossible task, but I have to have this up and running this > weekend. So, I don't have any time or money for complex solutions. I just > need to this all to stay up long enough to figure out a proper plan. > > > > Until then, here is my working plan. Please tell me what you think. > > > > I have 4 cf9 standard licences, and four servers running win2k3 x86 > (fairly fast processors and 4gb ram each). I have a fifth win2k3 server x64 > running SQL Server 2005. These servetrs are recent installs and do not have > any other sites on them. > > > > My plan is to load the site on all four servers, all pointing to the same > database server (it appears much of the queries in the site are cached) > > > > I would then set up round-robin DNS to do the poor-mans load > distribution. > > > > Most importantly I am hoping some of the gurus here might have some jvm > tuning suggestions to help handle the load. > > > > Ok let me have it. Is there any hope, or am I just hopelessly screwed? > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:344338 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
